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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
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| HB 1315 | DUI Offenses - As enacted, requires an ignition interlock provider to permit a person to appear for calibration, monitoring, or inspection of the device at any time within a two-week period; authorizes a court to order reinstatement of a person’s driver license if the person has no other revocations or suspensions on the person’s driving record and the person’s only noncompliance with ignition interlock requirements has been with regard to the required calibration, monitoring, or inspection of the ignition interlock device; makes various other changes in regard to ignition interlock devices and the ignition interlock usage period. - Amends TCA Section 55-10-417 and Section 55-10-425. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 30, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 762 | Witnesses - As enacted, establishes procedures for the use of certified facility dogs during witness testimony and other court proceedings; establishes standards for certified facility dogs. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 36; Title 37 and Title 40. | Reported from Committee | 47 | Apr 30, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1094 | State Symbols - As enacted, designates the Southern Stars Symphonic Brass as the official brass band of the state of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3. | Reported from Committee | 47 | Apr 30, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 379 | Charitable Solicitations - As enacted, clarifies, by removing certain language, that a professional solicitor includes servants or employees specially employed by or for a charitable organization who are engaged in the solicitation of contributions. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101. | Reported from Committee | 47 | Apr 30, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 421 | Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, creates a process by which a utility district commissioner who becomes ineligible to serve for failing to meet training and continuing education requirements may be reinstated; reduces the number of hours of training and continuing education for utility district commissioners from 12 hours to six hours in each continuing education period following the initial 12 hours of initial training and continuing education. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34 and Title 7, Chapter 82. | Reported from Committee | 47 | Apr 30, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 1038 | Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, requires the administrative office of the courts to maintain a criminal justice information services compliant centralized statewide juvenile case management system; requires all juvenile court clerks to adopt and convert to the new juvenile case management system on a schedule to be determined in consultation with the administrative office of the courts; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 18 and Title 37. | Reported from Committee | 47 | Apr 30, 2025 | 2 |
| HB 712 | Disability and Aging, Dept. Of - As enacted, directs the commissioner and the director of TennCare to develop guidelines for service providers for hiring qualified family members as a family caregiver; specifies that the department and the bureau of TennCare shall not prohibit qualified individuals from employment as a family caregiver at a service provider agency based on certain listed criteria. - Amends TCA Title 52 and Title 71. | Reported from Committee | 47 | Apr 30, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 1318 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, extends the Access Tennessee health insurance program from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-2916. | Reported from Committee | 46 | Apr 30, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1361 | Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes Johnson City to set the hours that licensees within a downtown district designated by the municipality are authorized to sell or give away alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Reported from Committee | 46 | Apr 30, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 1227 | Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, adds the executive director of the commission to the statutorily prescribed selection process for chief executive officers of public institutions of higher education and removes the repeal date for that process; revises various reporting and other duties of the commission; allows the commission to delegate its approval authority to its executive director in certain areas; expands the quality non-degree credentials for which a student may receive the Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Reported from Committee | 46 | Apr 30, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 745 | Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, extends, from one to two business days following receipt of a garnishment, the period of time within which a garnishee must determine whether the garnishee possesses or controls money or property of the judgment debtor, place a hold on any available funds, and furnish to the judgment debtor a copy of the garnishment summons and the notice to judgment debtor; makes other changes related to banking. - Amends TCA Title 26; Title 45 and Title 47. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 30, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 922 | Consumer Protection - As enacted, adds as unlawful under the Consumer Protection Act of 1977 the making of false statements or misrepresentations of fact to a consumer to indicate or imply that the consumer is a party to a civil lawsuit or a defendant in a criminal prosecution in order to induce the consumer to pay for services related to the purported lawsuit or prosecution or to pay costs, fines, penalties, or other assessments related to the purported lawsuit or prosecution. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47 and Title 65. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 30, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 654 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises certain protocols for mental health and substance abuse services. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 30, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 480 | Surveyors - As enacted, requires a description of real property contained within a deed of conveyance of a property not previously described in a recorded instrument to be prepared by a registered land surveyor; specifies that this requirement will not apply to any deed of conveyance prepared for or by a governmental department or agency. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 66, Chapter 5, Part 1. | Reported from Committee | 44 | Apr 30, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 871 | Real Property - As enacted, adds requirements for declarant access to and use of deposits made in connection with the purchase or reservation of a condominium unit; makes other similar changes. - Amends TCA Title 66. | Reported from Committee | 44 | Apr 30, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 965 | Contractors - As enacted, encourages licensed contractors and subcontractors who enter into state construction contracts to employ apprentices from certified and registered apprenticeship programs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 12, Chapter 4; Title 50, Chapter 11; Title 62, Chapter 6 and Title 66, Chapter 34. | Reported from Committee | 44 | Apr 30, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 299 | Boards and Commissions - As enacted, changes the qualifications for membership on the medical cannabis commission to include a patient caregiver and a subject matter expert with knowledge of how cannabis is cultivated, processed, shipped, distributed, or prescribed for medical use; specifies that the recommendations made by the commission to the general assembly may include policy recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68, Chapter 7. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 196 | Education - As enacted, prohibits the department of education from excluding from the calculation of a school letter grade the data of any group of students within a school if the department collects, aggregates, and reports the data, and if the group of students has at least 20 valid test scores in math or English language arts for at least one grade band; and data for the college and career readiness indicator if the school has at least 20 students in a graduating cohort. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 1281 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, requires that interest income accruing on investments and deposits as a result of the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee's collection of rates to customers of a water system or wastewater system operated by the authority be credited to a separate account and carried forward into each subsequent fiscal year. - Amends TCA Section 64-9-107. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 29, 2025 | 2 |
| SB 849 | Health, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to collaborate with an organization in this state to create or identify a continuing education program to provide healthcare professionals with information or training relative to maternal mental health disorders. - Amends TCA Title 63. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |